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ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, GREENWICH, DECEMBER 5TH, 1894

To Mr. T. H. Reynolds.

Dearest Reynolds, — I am glad that you are back again from your labours in the north and trust you are not much the worse. I am most thankful for your ministry there for there are many good men who would appreciate it. But the Scotch mind is inclined to be material and hard — and this does not make a promising soil for heavenly truth. But I think that if they are a bit hard they are in general just. I have not the least objection to the reprinting of the little paper from the Voice if you think it worth it. I will gladly share in the expense or indeed bear it. We had a great crowd at Brixton last evening — the room quite full — and I am thankful to say the meeting passed off very quietly. The question of the previous meeting came up — the point being to know where we were and why we were there. I maintained that the existence of a fellowship as distinguished from actual coming together in assembly was what really marked ^[p. 98] us off from Bethesda who by the course they took at Bristol repudiated the idea of fellowship. Further, that the original and only possible ground of fellowship here was that of calling on the Name of the Lord, the basis being the fellowship of His death. That the difference now was that it is incumbent on every one that names the Name of the Lord to depart from iniquity as we now have to look for those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. The truth of the one body I held to be light and privilege for those gathered in fellowship and it was realised in our being together in assembly. I do not know that anything was advanced against it save that the one body was a kind of fellowship, a sort of ecclesiastical formation, in which case I maintained that we were a sect. Oliphant seemed to me rather in a fog, and I think he has to break free from ecclesiasticism. I trust the meeting may lead in the direction of peace. I fancy very many were thankful for it. I am just off to Horsham for the day.

With kind love,
Your affectionate brother,
F. E. Raven.

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